听说教程1 Unit13 The Media 听力原文+答案+注释

Unit 13 The Media

Part A

Communicative Function Describing Things

In daily life we often describe things to others. In our descriptions, we talk about size, shape, color and so on.

Listen to the Conversation and supply the missing information in the blanks. Color: orange Shape: rectangular Material: wool Usage: to keep warm The present: a woolen scarf

Script Rose: Hi, James. I hear that your birthday is coming soon. James: Yes. It's next Tuesday. Rose: I've bought a present for you. James: What is it? Can you tell me? Rose: No, it's a surprise. You'll see it next Tuesday. James: Let me guess. What color is it? Rose: Um…it's orange.

James: And what about the shape? Rose: Rectangular. James: How big is it? Rose: Oh, about 30 centimeters wide and 2 meters long. James: Really? Is it heavy? Rose: Not really.

James: What's it made of? Rose: It's made of wool. James: What's it used for? Rose: To keep warm.

James: Oh, I know! It's a woolen scarf. Rose: That's it. See you next Tuesday, James. Bye.

Notes

There are a variety of shapes. The common ones are round, square (正方形), oval (橢圆形), long, angular (尖角形), rectangular (长方形) and so on.

Listening Strategy Filling in Forms

In everyday life we often have to fill in different kinds of forms. Knowing how to fill in a form is a skill we must learn. Before filling in a form it is important to find out what kind of information is required and where to write the relevant details.

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Now listen to the tape and then complete the student information card and the hotel reservation form below. Student Information Name Betty Li Date of birth August 19th, 1990 Sex Female Date of entering the university August 31st, 2008 Address Room 420, No 1 Residence Hall for students Education graduated from No. 3 Girls High School in Shanghai Interests writing, painting and music Script Betty Li graduated from No.3 Girls High School in Shanghai in the summer of 2008. She enrolled in the Department of Chinese at Northwest University on August 31st, 2008. Betty lives on campus. She lives in Room 420 of No.1 Residence Hall for students. Her phone number is 52167739. Betty was born on August 19th, 1990. She is interested in writing, painting and music. She hopes to become a writer when she finishes college.

Part B Listening Tasks Script

Radio and TV

The most obvious difference between radio and television is that you listen and look at the television, but just listen to the radio. In this way, radio is more imaginative because it forces you to form pictures in your own mind rather than providing you with visual information, which is what television does. In addition, radio is more flexible than television, since you don't have to be in the same room as the radio set in order to listen to the programs, but you do have to be in the same room as a television in order to watch it. A radio is also far more portable than a television. You can listen to the radio while driving in the car, jogging or even just walking around. Although portable televisions do exist, you can't really watch one while you are jogging, for example. One of the main advantages of radio, however, is that it offers the listener more immediate access to information. Most radio stations broadcast news reports at regular half-hour or hourly intervals, but television news is only broadcast a few times each day. Also, the variety of topics you get on the radio is much greater than that on television. Radio is more personal than television. Many radio programs are interactive in a way that television can never be. Listeners can call the radio station they are listening to and express their thoughts and opinions live on air. You can't ring up a television station and express your opinions, can you?

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Language and Culture Notes

1. Background information From its appearance at the beginning of the 20th century, radio had been a major provider of news and entertainment until television came into being. The early models of the modern television appeared in the 1920s but its popularity did not begin until after World War II, especially until after color TV became available in the 1960s. Today TV sets are much more sophisticated. Not only are they attached with remote control, but they can be hooked to VCR, VCD, DVD and even to the Internet. So it is not surprising that more and more people now watch TV to get news, sports, and a great variety of entertainment. Yet television cannot completely replace radio. Many people still like radio because of its compactness in size. Radio also survives as a major part of a tape recorder, a hi-fi and a necessary component of a car. To adapt to the invention of TV, radio has also made great changes in its system, and in the way it presents programs. The stereo system, for example, is successful in winning music lovers to radio programs.

2. portable television A television set about 3\

3. at regular half-hour or hourly intervals (the program is broadcast on the radio) every half hour or every hour

4. Many radio programs are interactive … Program hosts or hostesses can get immediate feedback from their listeners and they can discuss a topic on the air. With TV, however, audience interaction is more difficult. The usual way is to send out a TV crew to bring in live coverage of people's response to some event.

5. live on air Listeners' thoughts or opinions can be heard on the radio at the moment they are spoken rather than later on a recording.

Exercise 1: Listening for general understanding

Listen to the recording once and choose the right answers to the questions you hear. 1. What is the passage mainly about?

a. The advantages of radio over television. b. The difference between radio and television. c. The changes made to radio programs.

d. The reasons for the unpopularity of TV programs. 2. Which of the following reflects the speaker's attitude? a. The invention of television is a failure. b. The invention of television has had a great impact on radio. c. Radio definitely has a larger audience than television does. d. Radio will not easily be replaced by television.

Exercise 2: Listening for details

Listen to the recording once again and fill in the chart with the missing information.

Special features of the radio 1) imaginative 2) flexible Illustrations Radio forces you to form pictures in your own mind. To receive radio programs, you don't have to stay in the room where the radio set is. 3

3) portable When you listen to the radio, you can do something else, like driving in the car, jogging or even just walking around. Radio stations broadcast news reports at half-hour or hourly intervals. And they offer a greater variety of topics. Listeners can call the radio station they are listening to and express their opinions. 4) accessible 5) interactive

Part C

Additional Listening

A Passage The Benson Family’s Decision

A. Listen to the passage and answer the following question.

What’s the main idea of the passage?

Without watching TV, people may find many interesting things to do.

B. Listen to the passage again and choose the best answers.

What has each member of the Benson Family found time doing in the past year? 1. Mr. Benson a. playing the piano

b. playing tennis

c. working in the cinema d. writing a novel

2. Mrs. Benson a. taking up judo

b. seeing films and plays c. writing a drama d. joining a film society

3. Daughter Emily a. taking up acting

b. reading ten novels c. learning to play the piano d. solving math problems

4. Son Mark a. reading novels and other books

b. playing tennis

c. joining a society d. going to tennis classes

Script

The Benson Family’s Decision

Have you ever spent a year without television? A year ago the Benson family decided that they were spending too much time in front of the box. So they got rid of it. And they have been

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living without a television for almost a year now. How have they been spending their free time then?

“We found it very hard for the first few weeks,” says Mrs. Benson. “We didn’t know what to do with our free time. But since then it’s been fine. We’ve done so many things that we hadn’t done for such a long time. Last year, for example, we didn’t go out to the cinema or the theatre once, but this year we’ve seen at least a dozen films and plays. And I’ve even joined the local drama society.

Mr. Benson has taken up tennis. Daughter Emily has been learning to play the piano and son Mark has been going to judo (柔道) classes. And they’ve all read more books. Mark said, “This year I’ve read about ten novels and five or six other books, too.”

So haven’t they missed the box at all? Emily says she has had a few problems: “I don’t like it when I go to school and all the kids are talking about a program that they’ve seen. Actually, I’ve just been watching a program at my friend’s house.”

Nevertheless, according to Mr. Benson, “We’ve all started doing so many interesting things that we wouldn’t have time to watch TV now.”

Part D

Test Your Listening A Compound Dictation

Listen to the passage three times and supply the missing information.

There are different 1) types of media today. News and 2) entertainment are communicated to us in a number of different ways, using different media. It may be 3) print media such as newspapers and magazines, or 4) electronic media such as radio and television. The word media is most often used to refer to the communication of news, and in this 5) context means the same as news media.

Programs on radio and television may be referred to formally as 6) broadcasts or informally as shows, especially in American English. The person who 7) presents a program or a show on radio or TV is a host or hostess but the one who hosts a popular music program is called a disk jockey or DJ. 8) News programs may be hosted by an anchor, either a man or a woman, who is sometimes more famous than the people in the news. In more traditional news programs, the news is read by a newsreader. There are many broadcasting organizations in a country and competition among them is

serious. 9) Most TV and radio networks want to increase the size of their audience, or their ratings. Good ratings are especially important during prime-time, the time of day when most people watch TV. This is not surprising as high audience figures attract more advertising or commercials to be shown in commercial breaks between programs. And 10) the broadcasting organization that can attract most advertising makes most money.

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